Clasp for suspenders



(No Model.)

0. R. HARRIS. CLASP FOR SUSPENDERS.

No. 444,353. v Patented Jan. 6, 1891 wuauto'c 'bnaomzo I M.

331 GHQ acme I I I UNITED? STATES PATENT ()FFICLG.

CHARLES R. HARRIS, OF lVlLLIAll/ISPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

' CLASP FOR SUS P E NDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,353, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed September 20, 1890. Serial No. 365,650. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES R. HARRIS, of \Villiamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new. and useful Improvements in Clasps for Suspenders and 'Similar Articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in clasps for suspenders and similar articles.

Heretofore in inventions of this character an approximately V-shaped blank with teeth on the edges adapted to penetrate the web to which the clasp is attached has been employed in connection with an integral tongue at one end of the blank, having teeth at the end,also to penetrate the web, and so arranged when folded that it was overlapped and held in place by the side folds of the blank.

The object of my present invention is to provide an article for the same purpose as heretofore--namely, for joining the meetingstraps of a suspenderbut employing less material and resulting in a cheaper article, and at the same time producing a secure and ornamental finish; and it consists in a sheetmetal blank formed with a pair of leaves or members adapted to be folded at or near their longitudinal centers to embrace and hold between their folds theedges of suspender-straps or other web, and provided with teeth at the edges adapted to penetrate the straps or web and hold them securely between the teeth along their edges and at the end, in combination with a cylindrical bearing constructed beneath and independent of the embracing portions of the clasp and adapted to receive a loop or ring for the connection thereto of other parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved clasp, the parts of the leaves being partly open. Fig. 2 is a view of the blank, and Fig. 3 is a trans verse section.

A represents the body of the blank, preferably V-shaped, comprising the leaves or members a a. These are each adapted to be folded longitudinally to embrace or clasp the edges of the suspender strap or straps and to insure a rigid attachment. The parallel edges of each member are provided with inwardlyprojecting teeth I) b, adapted to penetrate the web and produce a secure attachment thereto. Although by folding the leaves or members a a through their longitudinal centers the teeth?) I) may be brought together or opposite each other, as heretofore, yet I prefer in my present invention not to fold these leaves through the longitudinal center, so that one part is made wider than the other, and the teeth on one edge are made to overlap or pass beyond those on the other edge of the leaf or member, as shown in Fig. 3; also, in addition to this feature of novelty, projections c c are formed on the overlapping parts of the leaves, which usually come together when the parts are folded, and the teeth I) I) continue around on these projections, so as to penetrate the ends of the straps or webs at this point.

At the lower end of the clasp ashort tongue 01 is formed by an elongation of the blank, and this is adapted to be rolled up into a cylindrical socket or bearing 6, adapted to receive the ring or loop f, which connects other parts of the suspender. This socket or bearing also serves as an abutment against which the end of the web is placed, and by this construction the web and the ring are held by parts independent of each other, so that the strain is divided and the parts of the clasp are rendered less liable to pull out than heretofore; also, in this form of socket a better bearing is made for the ring or loop than has previously been done. So it may be stated in conclusion that all the good qualities of former devices of this class are to be found in this as Well as the additional meritorious features herein enumerated.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa 1. A clasp constructed of sheet metal, comprising two leaves or members having teeth on both of their edges and adapted to be folded to embrace the edges of a suspenderstrap or other web, and also having a short tongue rolled into a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical socket or hearing located below the leaves of the clasp for the reception of a wire loop, substantially as set forth.

A clasp constructed of sheet metal, comleaves of the clasp for the reception of awire prising two leaves or members adapted to be loop, substantially as set forth. folded to embrace the edges of a. suspender- In testimony whereof I have signed this strap orother web, said folding portions being specification in the presence of two subscrib- 5 0g difierent widths and having teeth on their ing witnesses. Z

c ges adapted to overlap each other and peney 1 y trate the webin different planes when folded, CHARLES HARRIb' and also provided with a short tongue rolled Witnesses: into a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical GEO. F. DOWNING, [0 socket or bearing, which is located below the V. E. HODGES. 

